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- Appreciating Goodness… That’s when you learn how to look out for the greed, aversion, and delusion in the mind, and learn how to say No to them. This training starts with being meritorious, but it goes on beyond that, it goes deeper into the meditation, as you learn to see ways in which the mind is causing itself unnecessary suffering, and you can root out …
- The Train Trestle… And all too often, we do it with greed, aversion, delusion, envy, jealousy: all kinds of unskillful mind states, along with that sense of being threatened by the collapse of things behind us. So we tend to do a shoddy job, which is why we find ourselves in worlds that we wouldn’t like to be in. So here, as we meditate, we have …
- Not-self… For example, with comprehending suffering and stress, comprehending means to understand suffering and stress to the point where you have no more passion, aversion, or delusion toward them. And what is suffering and stress? It’s clinging to the five clinging-aggregates, or more basically the clinging. The aggregates themselves are not the problem. The problem is in the clinging. We want to comprehend …
- Conviction in the End of Suffering… It gives you the strength you need in order to overcome your greed, your aversion, and your delusion—and it reminds you that death is not the end. For a lot of people for whom death is the end, the current pandemic is really cause for dismay. And of course, there really is dismay in the fact that so many people are dying, and …
- In a World of Crooked Wheels… Now he’s a Buddha, good at getting rid of the crookedness of greed, aversion, and delusion in his students. You can read this parable in a lot of ways, one of which is that the Buddha’s Dhamma-and-Vinaya is like the first wheel. It’s well designed. It’s going to last for a long time. Look at it: Over 2 …
- Strong Against Anger & Fear… The Buddha’s approach is counterintuitive in a lot of ways, but it’s counterintuitive only to our greed, aversion, and delusion. When you see things clearly, you see that he is really right. If you think that your wealth lies in things that people can take away, you’re constantly going to be afraid. As for the fear of death, you’ve got …
- Right Action & Right Livelihood… Is it true, as his teachers had told him, that he’s going to go to the heaven of laughter? And again, the Buddha says, “Don’t ask.” The actor asks three times, and finally the Buddha says, “Okay, if you’re trying to give rise to passion, aversion, and delusion in your audience and in your own mind, then when you die you …
- When Nothing’s Happening… Not mistakes based on greed, aversion, or delusion. Not mistakes based on breaking the precepts. Simple mistakes based on having the wrong information. That’s possible. So there is still right and wrong for them in this area. But in the area of nibbāna, there is no right or wrong. As Ajaan Lee says, right view and wrong view are matters of the world …
- Meditate to Win… If you can’t laugh at your greed, aversion, delusion, and lust, it’s going to be a grim battle. But if you can laugh, you can basically step back. That’s what discernment is all about: stepping back. I mentioned this the other day around the issue of metacognition: You watch the mind thinking, you watch the mind as it focuses, you watch …
- Breaking Old Habits… If you put a particular teaching into practice, what results do you get? Do you find more passion, more aversion in your life, or less? Do you find that you’re more burdensome to yourself and other people, or less? As you work through these questions and test the Dhamma that you’ve listened to, you get a better and better sense of how …
- Believing & Knowing… The only sure way is to get rid of those defilements—your greed, aversion, and delusion—so that someday you’ll find your bull elephant. You’ll see for yourself that what the Buddha taught was true. The Buddha really did know what he was talking about. To get back to the house analogy: You’ve finally got the ridgepole in place. Everything else …
- Warm Your Heart… In terms of the recipient, you want to give to someone who’s free of passion, aversion, and delusion, or to someone who’s working on the path in that direction. And as far as the gift itself, you want to give in season; something that’s appropriate; something that doesn’t harm you or anybody else in giving. This is all part of …
- To Comprehend Craving… You have to comprehend craving, which means ending all passion, aversion, and delusion around it. We talk about the different duties with regard to the four noble truths, and that the duty with regard to craving is to abandon it, but there’s one passage where Ven. Gavampati says he heard it from the Buddha that you should try to comprehend all four of …
- Determined to be Happy… But especially meditation—getting the mind under control so that your greed, aversion, and delusion don’t take over: That’s a gift, not only to yourself, but to the people around you. So when you think about the goals you want to aim at, it’s good to think about looking for a harmless goal, a happiness that’s harmless. As for the …
- Questioning Your Way to Certainty… The same with aversion and delusion: You know for yourself here and now when these things are present and when they’re absent. You also know what you’ve done to bring them on and you know what you’ve done to get rid of them. So, seeing the Dhamma here and now is a question of noticing your actions and the result of …
- To Be Trustworthy… Your own greed, aversion, and delusion will get you. And when they get you, they make you do unskillful things. That’s our big fear: that we can’t trust ourselves not to do unskillful things. You think about what’s going to happen in society if this quarantine lasts for a long time. There’s going to be a lot of hardship. When …
- Skills Needed at Death… The problem is, it’s often making them under the power of aversion. It doesn’t want to die, but it can’t stay in the body anymore. There’s a lot of ignorance, and on top of that there’s desperation. That’s the main difference between meditating and dying in meditation. You can choose whether you’re going to meditate right now …
- The Buddha Teaches a Yakkha… You ask yourself, “What would be the long-term consequences of following this particular idea?” This is especially important with defilements like greed, aversion, and delusion. You have to stop and ask yourself, “If I act on these emotions, what will the results be?” And you have to learn how to hold yourself in check when you see that the results would be bad …
- Hindrances Based on Delusion… There’s ill will, which comes out of aversion. And then the remaining three come out of delusion: sloth and torpor, restlessness and anxiety, and uncertainty. Sloth and torpor and restlessness and anxiety: Basically the first one is delusion with a low energy level, and the second one is delusion with a very high energy level. And you often find yourself going back and …
- You Should Heed These Shoulds… What does comprehension mean? It means that you understand suffering to the point of having no more greed, aversion, and delusion around it. Craving, the second noble truth, is to be abandoned. How do you abandon it? First, you have to figure out where your craving is focused. Suppose you think you have a craving for a person. But is it really focused on …
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